Calumet High School - Peace Pipe Yearbook (Calumet, MI)

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The 1954-55 SPORTS SEASON held a lot of joys and sorrows for both the players and the spectators. But-- whether we win or whether we lose, we're with you tearn, we're with youl This year brought in a new coach, Mr. Lindeman, for football and basketballg Mr. Kitti still holds sway over the track team. FOOTBALL: Calumet started the football season off right with a 14-7 win over the Lakes. This game was a battle from start to finish and could have been anybody's game. Both teanis were out for blood, and blood they got. Several players were extracted from the game due to injuries falso penaltiesj. Calu.met's two touchdowns were made by Mike and Matt Kaifesh. Calumet then played host to Iron River Qrated No. 1 team in U. PJ. The Copper Kings were given a 24-0 beating. In this game Copper Country fans saw a football player they will long remember--Eddie Vigerra, a little 130-pound Filipino. Not only did Calumet lose this game, but something else was lost--Crocker's three front teeth. Calumet' suffered its second defeat of the season when they played Bessemer on a fog-covered fieldg the score was 19-6. Calu.met's one touchdown was on a pass from Arola to Mike Kaifesh. Calumet then tried a new foe. Hoping for a win, they traveled to play Escanaba Central and were trounced by a score of 33-0. When the Kings went into the Hancock game, the fans expected Hancock to give Calu.met a drubbing, Hancock being favored to win by two touchdowns. Calumet plugged so hard in this game that they proved to everyone that we had a better team than it seemed. Although Calu.met did not win, it was considered as a moral victory for the Kings. Rod MacLeod, Junior fullback, went on a scoring spree to score three touchdowns and Garrow hit his former teammates so hard on two different plays that Ricci fof Han- cockl said to his teammates, Can't you get that Garrow out of the way? He's killing me. The final score of that game was Hancock, 265 Calumet, 25. In this game the yards gained by rushing were: Calumet-123, Hancock-282--yards gained by passing: Calumet-93, Hancock-40. Calumet lost its Booster game to Negaunee by a score of 13-6. Barry scored on a 60-yard run around right end. The captain of the Copper Kings foot- ball tea.m of 54-55 was John Haataja. BASKETBALL: The Calumet Copper Kings basketball team did not have a very good season as far as the record shows, but it accomplished something else. This was giving the Sophomores such as Rowe, Arntsen, Salonen, and Pelto, and the Juniors, Pellegrini, Bennetts, and Wickstrom more experience on the basketball court. Thus in the next few years our teamfshould really pick up, as graduation won't leave us with a com- pletely green team but a good string of veterans. Calumet lost its first game to Houghton by a score of 61- 29. Jutila and Arola were high for Calumet with 6 points each. Mentink was high for the Gremlins with 14. Hurley of Houghton was held to his lowest for the season-12 points. Calumet Ontonagon drubbed Calumet 72 to 40 at Ontonagon. W'hite was high for the Bears with 25: Arola paced Calumet with IZ. Calumet's third loss was to Baraga in a thriller, with Baraga winning in the final seconds of the game. The final score was Baraga 63, Calumet 60. Jonderau led both teams in scoring honors with 32 points. Rowe had 22 for Calumet, Jutila 14 with 10 of them coming from jump shots from the corner. Sacred Heart Rockets made history by defeating the Kings in their fourth game of the season. The score was 55-44. At halftime Calumet led 27 to 25. Oinas netted 22 points for a winning cause. Rowe and Arola had 11 and 10 points respectively for Calumet, The Kings fifth defeat in five starts ca.me from Dollar Bay, the game being played at Dollar Bayg score 45-51. Rowe was high for Calumet with 16 points. The Copper Kings then traveled to Ishpeming only to be defeated again by a score of 68-40. Rowe was high point man of the garne with 20. Bjorne of Ishpeming followed closely with 19. The seventh loss for the Kings canne from Lake Linden. In this ganfie however Calumet was not drubbed as before. They lost by 5 points which the Whiz Kids managed to get in the last few minutes of the game on foulsg the final score being 56-61. Rowe had 19 for the Kings.- Calumet lost another 5 point game to the Bulldogs from Hancock, 47-42. The rally the Kings whipped up fell short as time ran out causing the eighth loss in the same number of ga.mes. After the Christmas layoff Calumet ca.me back against Ontonagon with their spirits high. They were out to win. Besides they had several new players, Pellegrini, Crocker, and Ken Pelto, Calumet did not beat Ontonagon but came mighty close. Ontonagop was expected to run away with the Kings but barely eked out their 45-41 win. Pellegrini was high for the Kings with 15. Rosemergy had 22 for the Polar Bears. Jeffers defeated the Copper Kings by a score of 65 to 49. The Jets were led by scoring ace Roger Rynnanen. Crocker was high for Calumet with 18 counters. The Houghton Gremlins beat Callurxet by a score of 94-65. Crocker led both teams with Z5 points--Hurley pocketed 23 'for Houghton. Calumet's Copper Kings finally broke into the winning column by defeating the L'Anse Hornets, 61-49. This victory marked the dis- carding of the title of being the only class B team in the U. P. without a win. Jutila broke the game wide' open in the final quarter by jamming 4 buckets through the meshes to put the Kings in a sizeable lead to win the game. Crocker, G. Arntsen, and Jutila had 114, 13, and 12 points respectively for the Kings. Ca1u.met won its next game against Sacred Heart gaining revenge for the defeat the Rockets gave them earlier in the season. The Rockets took an early lead but the Kings came back to conquer them in the second half. The final score read 52-43. Rebounds were a big factor in the game with Crocker and G. Arntsen each getting 11 and Jutila 10 and Rowe 9. The Kings racked up their third straight win by defeating Hancock 51-48 in a hotly contested game. Crocker was high for Calumet with 21 points. N Calumet then traveled to Lake Linden for another conference clash with the Whiz Kids. Lake Linden ca.me out on the top of a 55-52 score. Crocker was high for Calumet with 24 points. Calumetls last game of the season was played on our own court against the Dollar Bay Blue Bolts. The Kings were the victors, beating Dollar Bay by a score of 65-45. The last quarter saw five Seniors starting and they contributed much, espe- cially by way of points, to this their last game. The Captain of the 1954-55 basketball season was Gary Crock- er. Five good players will be lost through graduation this year- -Gary Crocker, Russ Jutila, Rodger Arola, Ron Arntsen, and Ray Garrow. TRACK: This sport we cannot say much about because by the time this book goes to press the track season will not be started yet. About all that can be said is how the team is expected to turn out and its participants. Mr. Kitti, track. coach, has high hopes for the best track team he has ever had. We hopeso too. The strongest point of the Kings track team is in the dashes with Matt Kaifesh and Garrow. Hurdles have Jutila, Winquist, G. Arntsen, and Crocker. In the distance running there is Mike Kaifesh,, Barry, Dube, R. Arntsen, Pelto, Bardo, Bennetts, 'and the Niemi brothers. The relay teams are expected to be strong also. In the field events Calumd: should show up better than they have in the past few years. Ray Garrow, a fo:rmer Bulldog, is expected to break Mr. Kitti's pole vault record of 11 feet. He also ranks high in shot put. Joe Chopp and Russ Jutila are the main high jumpers. Broad jump will have Matt Kaifesh leading the pack. Thatls about all that can be said about track now, except that we wish them luck!

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Football 1954-1955 Crocker W. Sickler, R, Arritsen. G. Arntsen, B. Rosemergy, Row 1: R. Garrow. R. Arola, G. , D. Murvich, N. Koski, J. Koski. -ROWZ: R. MacLeod, J. LaBonte, M. Kaifesh, M. Kaifesh, J. Barry, J. Haataja, P. Bracco, J. Chopp, R. Jutila, R. Berryman. Row 3: U. Tanskanen, V. Sutinen, G. Liikala, Kauppila, C. Bessalo, J. Beiswanger, E. Kangas, J. Bennetts, G. Isola. Row 4: Assistant Coach Phelan, Bryant, D. Hillstrom, J. Rowe, Assistant Manager B. Larson, R. Winquist, K. Rowe, Manager Assistant Manager Pellegrini, Coach Lindeman. IND IV IDU AL PO IN TS Rod MacLeod Mike Kaifesh Matt Kaifesh Ray Garrow Jack Barry Rodger Arola Total Z0 IZ 6 6 6 1 5l